On this day 250 years ago in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress addressed the devastating news of the defeat at Quebec and the loss of Gen. Richard Montgomery. The Congress

ending arms, medicine, and soldiers, but also encouraging a deliberate effort by “general assemblies, conventions, and councils or committees of safety, upon the continent, to employ proper persons, within their respective colonies, to collect all the gold and silver coin they can, and inform Congress of the sum collected.”

Resolved, That the president be directed to send an express to General Schuyler, with a letter, informing him of the measures the Congress have taken for the defense of Canada, and desiring him to forward the same to General Wooster.  That he likewise dispatch an express, with the like information, to General Washington, to the Governor of Connecticut, and the conventions or councils of safety of New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire.

The Congress made arrangements to send reinforcements, ammunition, arms and medicine to Generals Wooster and Arnold in Canada and encouraged

general assemblies, conventions, and councils or committees of safety, upon the continent, to employ proper persons, within their respective colonies, to collect all the gold and silver coin they can, and inform Congress of the sum collected.

Source: https://americanfounding.org/entries/second-continental-congress-january-20-1776/

And on this day 250 years ago in Richmond, the Fourth Virginia Convention adjourned.

Source: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/the-virginia-revolutionary-conventions-1774-1776/